I’ve allocated points to each location, the tougher the location the more points you get. You then multiply the points for each location by the number of years you lived there, tally them up and bingo, you have your Badass Expat score.

My current score is 111.

What’s yours?

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Ranking

Points Earned Per Assignment Year

Number of Years in Country

Totals

China

19

1

Philipines

18

2

Uganda

17

3

South Africa

16

4

4

16

Ukraine

15

5

Ireland

14

6

Qatar

13

7

Peru

12

8

Kazakhstan

11

9

Indonesia

10

10

Kenya

9

11

India

8

12

Tanzania

7

13

Brazil

6

14

Saudi Arabia

5

15

Egypt

4

16

Kuwait

3

17

Mozambique

2

18

Nigeria

1

19

5

95

Badass Expat Score

111

What’s the most challenging thing you had to do to earn your badass expat stripes? Did you deal with constant power and water cuts? Police check points? Wildlife? Weather? Culture? Language? Traffic? Lacklustre supermarket offerings? Crime?

Do you think any of the countries on this list shouldn’t be on it? Which country is NOT on this list, but should be?

6 thoughts on “Are you a badass expat? Take this quick quiz to find out.”

Well I have lived in number 18, 16 and 1 but we only lasted a few months in 1 after being medi-vacced so I cant even count a year there! However this list doesn’t include two other fairly badass places I have lived – Venezuela and Pakistan!

Just stumbled across your blog – and it’s great and I have followed you 🙂 Had a go at your Badass Expat Score and it worked out at 60 – does that make me a softarse (I’m English and will always say arse and not ass 😉 )